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Malpractice payouts take huge jump

Quick View. June 7, 2004.

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Payments to plaintiffs have increased nearly 69% in the past decade.

The payouts in medical malpractice lawsuits have shown a big increase, even though the number of claims submitted to the National Practitioner Data Bank has remained about the same.

This information and the accompanying full-text visual aids were drawn from the following source:

National Practitioner Data Bank and the Physician Insurers Assn. of America Data Sharing Project.

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